Monday, May 16, 2016

Felt Tag



Hi all! It is Monday again and I hope you had a good weekend. This week we have a Felt challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog and the team is showcasing the wonderful Spring Plush collection by Simon Says Stamp. The collection consists of lovely wool felt in many different colours and a lot of very sweet dies. 

Layers of ink - Summe Felt Tag by Anna-Karin using Simon Says Stamp Spring Plush Collection.
Felt as a crafting material has been with me since childhood. It is so versatile and comes in wonderful colours. I had a fun project in mind using Spring Plush dies and wool felt, however, my parcel got held up somewhere on the way and didn't make it here in time. I bet it will come today. Instead, I had to improvise a little and I made a quick felt tag. It is easy to die cut felt with wafer thin dies, even with quite detailed dies, such as the words that I used here. Also, if you back felt with paper, it is great for an entire background of a card or a tag. 

Layers of ink - Summe Felt Tag by Anna-Karin using Simon Says Stamp Spring Plush Collection.
For the background, felt was glued to manila cardstock and I die cut a tag with Tim Holtz Sizzix Tag & Book Plates die. It is fun mixing felt and other materials, and here I used Sizzix white Paper Leather sheets. The sky was die cut from Paper Leather and the scalloped edge was die cut with the Simon Says Stamp Border Waves die. I painted it with Prima's Classic watercolours and when dry, stamped with one of my favorite stamps the SSS Tiny Alphabet background and Surf Blue ink. The clouds were die cut with the Chevron Clouds die. 

Layers of ink - Summe Felt Tag by Anna-Karin using Simon Says Stamp Spring Plush Collection.
The Radiant Sunflower die is so pretty and it can be used for many types of flowers, not only sunflowers. I die cut the petals from Paper Leather and painted with watercolours. The centre was die cut from two different shades of brown felt.

Layers of ink - Summe Felt Tag by Anna-Karin using Simon Says Stamp Spring Plush Collection.
The title was die cut from white felt and I stitched around the tag with brown DMC embroidery floss, to give it even more of a homemade feeling.

I hope you will join us in our Felt challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.


If you want to, follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 




If you use instagram add #sssmchallenge to your challenge entry uploads, so that we can see them on there too.





Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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16 comments:

  1. Gorgeous tag Anna-Karin, the colours and sunny details are fabulous, very cute :-)

    luv
    Lols x x x

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  2. Oh so ADORABLE Anna-Karin. What great 'material' you used. Totally makes me smile to see this. Thanks bunches for a SUPER way to start the week. Xj.

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  3. Beautiful and sweet! I see you love the blue/green/yellow mix of colors. Ther works perfectly with the spring and sunny results. Lovely project. Hugs, Marzena

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  4. Anna-Karin, your tag makes me smile from ear to ear. It's so bright and cheery and makes me think of a relaxing summer that's coming up in a few weeks. Adorable! Cathie <3

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  5. I love this vibrant and summer-feeling tag!! Makes me want to grab my flipflops and head to the beach!! hugs xx

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  6. Such a happy tag with that sweet sun flower!

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  7. Fabulous tag!!! So bright and cheery....

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  8. Oooh! I love how the whole tag is felt! So fun and fuzzy!

    *mwah*
    Steph
    Simon Says Stamp!

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  9. Oh Ann-Karin, I love your pretty tag! The felt is the perfect colour and great texture for the grass. The message is so inspiring. It needs to be hung up where you can see it every morning. :)
    Thank you for sharing your beautiful work!

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  10. Oh Ann-Karin, I love your pretty tag! The felt is the perfect colour and great texture for the grass. The message is so inspiring. It needs to be hung up where you can see it every morning. :)
    Thank you for sharing your beautiful work!

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  11. so beautiful Anna-Karin...love the bright spring colours...hugs kath xxx

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  12. Love how you made your tag out of felt on this one, Anna-Karin!

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  13. Love the beautiful background and the sentiment you created on this tag, Anna-Karin. Great design! :)

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  14. Gorgeous tag, Anna-Karin! Love the felt scenery you've created! It's stunning. Hugs, Sandra

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  15. I adore this tag Anna-Karin! It's funny, cheery and so clever! All the elements are perfectly balanced, as always! Great work! barbara

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  16. This makes me so excited for summer and road trips and sunshine! Love how you can create such fabulous scenes from scratch and the stitching here is prefect!

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